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jonnywaistcoat · 4 months

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I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

#shut up fermi you nerd #im not even sure interstellar travel is even possible #at least for any sort ot life we can comprehend #and maybe thats fine

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bfleuter · 3 months

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Art I did a few years ago for fantasy/horror author Moe Lane. He's currently kickstarting a short-story anthology in this setting.

#tales from the fermi resolution #fantasy #post apocalyptic

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capricorn-0mnikorn · 2 months

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So: that "Fermi Paradox"

#tumblr polls #fermi paradox

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elbiotipo · 3 months

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Every video about alien civilizations and the Fermi Paradox sooner or later always mention that same stupid "prisoner dilemma" "logical" theory, basically "what if aliens kill other civilizations before becoming a threat!!!1!!1" which, as far as I know, came from a science fiction book (The Killing Star) which got really popular and people started treating as some real thing that makes sense when it falls apart once you think more than five minutes about it. Because civilizations, as we know, are very simple, logical things that operate in binary switches of "kill/don't kill". It's a logical thing, you know? don't you know the Prisoner's Dilemma, it's a logical game, it's just logical to kill your enemies, it's logic, and aliens should be logically trying to exterminate us!

Interesting that this became so widespread, because it seems to reveal a fear on people that advanced civilizations will just strike us from the map. Which has some political subtext too. In Soviet science fiction, alien civilizations were thought to be communist and pacifist, because what other kind of civilization would explore the stars otherwise? Which gave us this awesome meme:

(Usamerican Wojak: Noooo, why are you invading, colonizing and extermining us?

Evil Aliens: Haha, we are created in your image and likeness, we are a reflection of your system, we are your fears of yourself.

Soviet Chad: Wait, so you explore space, build communism and you don't colonize or exterminate anything?

Communist Aliens: Naturally.)

It's just kinda funny that in Soviet science fiction, a major theme was that advanced civilizations will just abandon war and explore things and such, while in Usamerican science fiction it's sometimes even given as a logical development that aliens would just want to exterminate everyone, so much that you find it in otherwise coherent discussions of possible alien civilizations.

#cosas mias #science fiction #space #aliens #fermi paradox #SPACE COMMUNISM

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adeleine-everyday · 2 months

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day 34

catching her up on past events

#god elfilis lore floors me sometimes. still cant get over fermi paradox and kuiper belt attacks #fun fact!!! no overlays were used here!#perhaps i am getting bettr at color theory.. one day.....#adeleine #adeleine kirby #kirby series #bandana waddle dee #elfilin #day 34

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tangomagnolija · 1 month

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I've been watching him for my entire life I hate the air he breathes, his foolish decrees His words so contrived And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't wishing For untimely death or demise Or am I just wishing I could be like you? [That the people would see me too as a poet And not just the muse] Oh, it's not true, I don't wish harm upon you May the gods strike me down if I forsake you Frater meus, [you're beautifully made And to you I'm forever grateful] But why do I lie awake each night thinking "Instead of you, it should be me"? Please know my actions are not motivated only by envy I, too, have a destiny This death will be art The people will speak of this day from near and afar This event will be history, and I'll be great too I don't want what you have, I want to be you My name is Brutus, but the people will call me Rex [Buttress - Brutus] "[...]Enrico was the most qualified person and the leading candidate to inherit the title of Vongola Decimo before he was shot and killed[...]." [KHR wiki, list of minor characters]

have you guys ever been 13 to 16 lol. was that fucked up or what

#*shifts the canon around a little to make it fit my delusions and visions* okay #also im not sorry im appropriating Enrico as my OC at this point #khr enrico fermi #enrico fermi #khr #katekyo hitman reborn #xanxus #khr xanxus #brutus is SOO potent for xanxus btw i have so much more art planned #lowkey wanted to push my trans XX agenda #with the ''of humble origins and born of the cursed sex'' line but didnt add it #keeping it kinda with the muse line though #also: his gun too big for his baby hands. much to think abt. he will grow into it

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psyfis · 7 months

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some possible explanations for the fermi paradox, according to wikipedia (inspired by this vid)

downloadable as a zine on my etsy!

#zine #wikipedia #etsy #art #poem #poetry #fermi #fermi paradox #physics #aliens #alien #collage #mixed media #mixed media art #collage art #mine

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automatonknight · 2 years

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image id: two digitals paintings.

the first one shows a robot character standing in the middle of clouds of smoke. they’re very messy, colored with shades of blue. above the robot’s head is a glowing moon. the robot itself, also colored blue except for the red top surgery scars on it’s chest, is facing the viewer. its head is a rectangle with a red lens, while it’s body resembles a human skeleton. the machine is shedding a single red tear, looking down at the viewer.

the other painting shows the same robot curled up in a vibrant green field. the machine is colored grey with red details. it’s wrapping it’s long arms around itself, with its legs close to its chest. end id

use it/its for the robot

#art #bright colors #ok to rb #eyestrain #those are more mm. personal pieces i guess #both of them are titled fermi

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rickmctumbleface · 7 months

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On alien star maps that show our part of the Milky Way, there's an image of a mushroom cloud and it says "Here there be assholes."

#aliens #calvin and hobbes #fermi paradox

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bitobrain · 11 months

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What is the Fermi paradox?

Here's a fun analogy: You walk up to an ocean with a bucket and fill this with water. After looking into the bucket you see there's no fish. Can you then conclude that there are no fish in the ocean? This is something that crosses my mind often when I think about extraterrestrial life. Can we really make the conclusion that we are alone in the universe when we can't even see all of it? The universe as we know it has trillions and trillions of other habitable planets so it would be absurd to think that there is absolutely no other life apart from right here on our little planet. But where is it? That's the Fermi paradox. Sure, we've concluded that the possibility of other planets with life isn't crazy to think about, it's pretty high, but then how come we don't know anything about it at all? It's often assumed that other life out there would have to be a much higher, more advanced form of civilization. Afterall, other planets and suns have existed for billions of years longer than Earth has, so even if we haven't found them yet, how come there has been absolutely no sign of anything bigger than us? The explanation would be that there is no civilization that's that much bigger and further in their technology than we are. But if there are so many more planets and there have been for so long that have the same conditions as Earth, there has to be something stopping that from happening. The Great Filter. But what if there is super-intelligent life out there and they have no reason to come anywhere near us or show any signs? There are lots and lots more possibilities we have thought about for this one. It could be that that life has already visited our planet before we were here or that there's been a lot of signs out there, but we don't have the technology to pick it up and we're listening for the wrong things or another popular one, we have already been in contact with a higher civilization but the government is hiding it from us. Whatever you choose to believe, I'll leave you with my favorite quote on this topic. "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying" - Arthur C. Clarke

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materialsscienceandengineering · 9 days

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Some materials are transparent to light of a certain frequency. When such light is shone on them, electrical currents can still be generated, contrary to previous assumptions. Scientists from Leipzig University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have managed to prove this. "This opens new paradigms for constructing opto-electronic and photovoltaic devices, such as light amplifiers, sensors and solar cells," says Inti Sodemann Villadiego, Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Leipzig University. The scientists have published their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters. "It is possible to drive electric currents by light even when the material has a vanishingly small absorption of such light. This is an important new insight," adds his colleague Li-kun Shi.